Sentence examples for surrounding territory from inspiring English sources

As a result, the administrations of the towns adjacent to the city, although small, enjoy a certain degree of autonomy, or an authority that extends its jurisdiction on the city as well as on the surrounding territory may intervene in the management of territorial processes.

The British East India Company acquired the city and surrounding territory in 1801.

Baikal's climate is much milder than that of the surrounding territory.

The surrounding territory bears the river's name, which is of uncertain origin.

In 1297 Pietro Caetani established himself as feudal lord of Ninfa and much of the surrounding territory.

Yet the town and the surrounding territory offers not only striking landscapes but an equally storied heritage.

These lands, together with some surrounding territories, again took the name of Palatinate in 1838.

After Koovagam, the immense idol is pulled up a winding dirt road through surrounding territories by scores of villagers.

He then crossed the Oxus River (Amu Darya) and in a series of brilliant campaigns conquered Bukhara and its surrounding territories (706 709) in Sogdiana (now part of Uzbekistan).

When the Reformation came, the town turned Protestant, while the surrounding territories, ruled by the monastery's prince-abbot, remained Catholic.

Since the early 15th century, the city of Beijing and its surrounding territories have been organized as a metropolitan district of enormous size, having a governor formerly appointed by the emperor himself equal in rank to a provincial governor.